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...line, then to Baffin Island, Labrador and Newfoundland. With his Arctic pictures in hand just before ice, fogs and darkness of the northern winter set in, he went on to installations in southern Canada, the U.S. and (by planes, blimp, helicopters and ships) to radar picket lines...
...stink bombs hurled into trucks or emery powder sneaked into motor oil. In recent years, armed with "paper local" labor-union charters obtained with the friendly conspiracy of Teamster Big Wheel Jimmy Hoffa, Dio collected wads of cash from employers in return for promising freedom from strikes, picket lines and other union nuisances...
...gave service too. In the dreary Depression days of strikes and lockouts, Hoffa's springy figure and his vibrant personality (expressed with a wealth of the four-letter words) became a familiar sight. His commodity was spirit. He found men to form picket lines, sometimes scraped up money to pay for their bread. He toured meetings of locals like an itinerant troubleshooter ("I know how to coordinate all the locals, how to use them to give full strength wherever we need it"), wore out his share of shoe leather on countless picket lines ("I was picked...
...picket line that he met Josephine Poszywak. She was a striking laundry worker, and he was an interested Teamster; they were married in 1936, have a son, James Phillip, 16, and a daughter, Barbara Ann, 19. Jimmy doesn't expect Josephine to do picket-line duty now. When he took the stand before the McClellan committee, he said: "I asked my wife not to watch it [on TV]. It would just upset her. What's the use of her watching things she doesn't understand...
Battle-weary after skirmishes with union cooks and waiters who have thrown an inelegant picket line around his posh Manhattan saloon, Stork Club Proprietor Sherman Billingsley .withdrew to his East Side town house, discovered that the working class had infiltrated his defenses. Perched on his front stoop, six house painters were chomping sandwiches and enjoying the sun. Spying out union men behind the ham on rye, Billingsley invited the workmen to "get the hell out of here," waved a .25 automatic. Summoned to the station house, Billingsley showed up with Attorney Roy Cohn, doe-eyed onetime boy commando...